Kirkham vs Shelby

[Mark IV]

Not so bad. I had a container of Superformance cars I paid for arrive in Newark. Customs cleared them before they land as usually happens. Container gets into the port storage. Container is marked as "unloaded" despite it not being so. Container is now loaded on a ship as "empty" and sent to Singapore. Realization of FUBAR happens and now container goes to Asia, gets offloaded, reloaded and finally returned to West Coast. My fault, no, but I must pay container "demiurge" fees and other costs! When they have you buy the stones, you are theirs!

[nkb]

Originally Posted by Mark IV

Not so bad. I had a container of Superformance cars I paid for arrive in Newark. Customs cleared them before they land as usually happens. Container gets into the port storage. Container is marked as "unloaded" despite it not being so. Container is now loaded on a ship as "empty" and sent to Singapore. Realization of FUBAR happens and now container goes to Asia, gets offloaded, reloaded and finally returned to West Coast. My fault, no, but I must pay container "demiurge" fees and other costs! When they have you buy the stones, you are theirs!

Rick,

Wow. That's a sad story I hope to not see repeated!

Latest on my saga is that the schedule has changed. Different ships now assigned from India where the container has already landed. Now going through Singapore, instead of China. But, the ships are not coordinated to meet up so a delay of 11 more days now forecast. Won't arrive until February now.

But, what concerns me is that the ship that is supposed to pick up the container in Singapore is still in the Mediterranean and scheduled to go through the Suez Canal and the Red Sea where rockets are flying and most shipping companies have curtailed operations. So I really wonder if the assigned ship will actually arrive to take the container from Singapore to the US.

All out of my control. The daily tracking is a geography lesson and a window on the uncertain state of the world.

[Mark IV]

Yes,

I hope to never see it repeated as well! Those who deal with international shipping will all have their own horror stories! How about paying demurrage on a container that was ready to move, but the forwarder couldn't get a truck/chassis for the move, so we pay for demurrage because they couldn't perform their part of the contract!

Or when the driver couldn't pass the customs inspection so was refused entry into the port to collect our container. My fault, my agent said I should have known that his driver, who I have never met, talked to or otherwise have any interaction with was not acceptable!